Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
当一个富二代从厌倦了富人的生活开始到放弃了令人羡慕的富人生活，看似表面毫无波澜的情绪之下，是对这个时代的厌恶
电影风格还挺独特的，故事有点狗血，看过了有记忆点。
啊。好无聊。从中年危机到异国艳遇到惊险枪战到癌症抑郁，真的好无聊。为啥一定要在墨西哥？这片子又跟墨西哥有卵关系？Eurocentric rich people bullshit，啥东西...还带着Charlotte Gainsbourg，差点忘了她也已经人到中年成了我印象中Jane Birkin的样子了...
女主太惨了，什么都没做错却得到一个家破人亡的结局，作家妻女的死明明是他老婆有精神病导致的，他却把账算在女主头上，女主被折磨这么久也不想着反击，明面搞不过不会来个同归于尽吗
很难说谁更悲惨，结局讽刺（第一次看到男人鼻子这么像钩、眼像鹰——太容易出戏了）
开篇的叙事还不错，但进入中段就变得糟糕了，无意义的情节展示对人物性格的揭示毫无用处。难怪我不喜欢，原来用的加缪《局外人》的梗。《局外人》的哲学思考我认同，但人物刻画却很不合理。39分钟弃剧。
蔚蓝晴空，日正当中，中年男子尼尔与家人在墨西哥的度假胜地，享受奢华的悠閒假期。白天在泳池边小酌，晚餐与乐手暗送秋波，一切都十分惬意，直到手机铃声划破空气。电话那头母亲病况危急，大家只好收拾行李，搭上下一班回国的飞机，不料尼尔在登机口找不到护照，只能与家人分道扬镳。走出机 场，尼尔搭上计程车，开往的却不是回饭店的方向，而是市区的破烂旅社⋯⋯。
4.5分。除了女主的颜和身材，一无是处的烂片，男主老头那一脸欠扁的装叉样和无敌的o型腿倒是让人记忆深刻！好故事烂编剧的典型！
导演似乎在说：“我创造一个混沌，你们去找吧。”于是，我找到了梦里。
波兰New Horizions 2022。 这片子也太瑞典了哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈。如果有的选，所有人都想处在感性的爽了就行的阶段。
【墨西哥】剧情的走向充满着一种怪异的趣味，在弯绕中引领看客在最后梳理出各自想要的答案。惬意的假日氛围或是男子与周遭奇怪的疏离，最先错觉是布满异域情调，白人寻欢的情色电影；接着是对社会问题、矛盾多变的Acapulco持续的展示。但最终，它证明并不属于这两者，却拥有这之外的特质。
Tim Roth已经在Michel Franco的镜头下死了两次了
影片在这疏离感的把握上做得很到位，但也有为了追求疏离而刻意回避深描的嫌疑，很多刻画都只点到为止。这也使得本片中，作为导演故乡的墨西哥却不幸沦为背景板，呈现出的也更多是一些刻板印象，实在可惜。联系到09年的猪流感，不知道猪在片中有没有某种影射之意。
大概是网飞股价崩了缺钱了，就四处收购这种异国小成本烂片，。男主很丑的老男人，为什么不把男一和男二对换一下身份，再加点热辣香艳的床戏，或许可以拯救这部烂片。
看到最后也没搞清楚，被袭击死去的女的，跟男主啥关系……
并不是拍得出和生活一样无聊的影像就叫电影了
莫名想起朱军与弦子的案件，还以为是西班牙片，查了才知道是阿根廷片。
【墨西哥】剧情的走向充满着一种怪异的趣味，在弯绕中引领看客在最后梳理出各自想要的答案。惬意的假日氛围或是男子与周遭奇怪的疏离，最先错觉是布满异域情调，白人寻欢的情色电影；接着是对社会问题、矛盾多变的Acapulco持续的展示。但最终，它证明并不属于这两者，却拥有这之外的特质。
以上理解不知道对不对 🤣
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